Have sent you a PM ... and will add further info for MOREMENT / BENSON to this thread shortly.

~ Lu

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For some reason I hadn't noticed your message come in. I hope you have shaken off your cold and are feeling better.

Clearly she is not the wrong age to be the Catherine Thomson from Liberton,Scotland / Pine Hill, Dunedin, New Zealand, so the informant at her death was mistaken, but it also makes her the right age to be the Australian-born daughter of John Benson and Catherine Ryan.

Thank you very much Lu for working out who the other nieces and nephews are.

Between:- her burial record saying she is Australian- all the beneficiaries of her will being grandchildren of John Benson and Catherine Ryan- John Benson and Catherine Ryan having a daughter called Catherine who is the same age as the woman who married William Morement (based on the intention to marry record) it seems very unlikely that Mrs Morement is the daughter of George Thomson and Helen Leadbetter.

Just to add some further information to this completed request, the NZ Cemeteries record for George's burial at Northern Cemetery has further details which match the details that would be on a death certificate. It states he has five female children alive at the time of his death. Their ages are 52, 47 (Catherine), 45, 41 and 38. So, although Catherine isn't mentioned in her father's death notice, it appears she is included on the death certificate.

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